cowboy songs
Prairie campfire tunes
Cowboy songs are folk songs associated with the cattle-driving era of the American West, typically featuring themes of lonely nights on the range, lost love, faithful horses, and open landscapes.
The genre includes work songs sung to calm cattle and sentimental ballads: He learned old cowboy songs from his grandfather.
The term sometimes extends to later country-western music that romanticizes frontier life.
- guitarFretted stringed instrument
- balladNarrative poem or song
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- AmericanaHeritage artifacts or music
- fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
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